If you want to plant a tree that produces a bounty of sweet treats year after year, you'll need an ice cream bean fruit tree.

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Beans are a plant source of protein, fiber, iron, and vitamins. They can form part of a nutritious diet that may benefit the heart, gut, liver, and more. In this article, learn about nine health ...

Astronauts will try to grow oyster mushrooms in space for the first time when SpaceX's Fram2 mission launches next week. When SpaceX launches its next mission in the coming days, it will include ...

Kent Mathewson is pictured in Mexico with a Castor Bean Plant. He is giving a lecture on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. at Hurlbut Church in Chautauqua Institution. CHAUTAUQUA – What do King Tut, Cleopatra, ...

You can’t simply plunk a whole cell of starts into the ground. You have to carefully separate them, and then plant each seedling in the ground, with space around it. It takes forever.

Researchers have demonstrated a technique for successfully encapsulating bacteria that can then be stored and applied to plants to improve plant growth and protect against pests and pathogens.

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It must be location tagged. It must include a photo. It must be a wild plant (one you didn’t cultivate yourself, for instance). If all of these requirements are met, the observation then gets ...